Taliaferro added they are ‘in the process of identifying’ personnel.įEMA is working with state and regional health and emergency managers to distribute pouches where needed. Taliaferro said Monday’s ‘mission assignments’ included requests for prepackaged Meals Ready to Eat (MRE), and ‘other supplies’ as well as ‘a mission assignment from FEMA for a mortuary affairs support team for New York’. On Monday, the vice director of operations for the the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Major General Jeff Taliaferro, said they ‘are in close partnership’ with FEMA to ‘identify what their needs are. ‘Our strength will be tested, our endurance will be tried.’ ‘This is going to be a painful two weeks,’ Trump said at a White House coronavirus briefing on Tuesday. A FEMA spokesperson said there will be ‘prudent planning’ that includes preparing for ‘mortuary contingencies’.Īfter it was predicted the death toll in the US would hit 200,000 President Trump told the country to brace for a tough time ahead. Pictured, dead bodies are loaded onto a truck outside Brooklyn Hospital Center in New York on TuesdayĪ source said, the bags have not yet been ordered but the Defense Logistics Agency’s Troop Support unit, which manages the Pentagon’s stockpile, was looking into the request. FEMA did not have a specific delivery date for the next 100,000 military-style remains pouches.

The green nylon body bags are usually distributed to war zones and measure up at 94 inches (7.8 feet) by 38 inches (3.2 feet).

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) did not have a specific delivery date for the military-style remains pouches, sources told Bloomberg Wednesday.

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